(From “Alternative Health” – Article with Glossary and Metabolic Pathways of GH3)
Probably most readers of ALTERNATIVE HEALTH magazine know what GH-3 is: a vitamin-based compound used by millions of people world-wide for its remarkable rejuvenating and revitalizing properties.Developed and first investigated systematically by Dr. Ana Aslan (Director of the Parhon Institute of Gerontology in Bucharest, Romania), GH-3 has become the subject of increasing medical research and recognition around the world during the last quarter century; and it was the subject of a recent best-selling book. GH3, by Herbert Bailey, which had over one million copies sold in the U.S.A. alone.
Numerous clinical studies in the U.S. and elsewhere have established the following beneficial properties of GH-3:
- GH-3 is a potent antidepressant and “brain tonic”. Most users become significantly more alert and cheerful.
- GH-3 often arrests or cures such aging symptoms as hair loss, greying, wrinkling and hardened skin.
- Users of GH-3 have reported dramatic improvements for a great variety of seemingly unrelated problems. These reports are common enough to merit scientific recognition; but they are variable and unpredictable.
Originally developed as a therapy for geriatric (old age) patients, GH-3 often has a rejuvenating effect on the old. But almost all users report (subjectively) that they feel much better, and the Parhon Institute of Gerontology (like clinics all over the world) now provides GH-3 treatments to people of all ages, Including even children. What makes the old feel young, makes the young feel younger.
…AND HOW IT WORKS
But what is GH-3? And how does it work its seeming magic?
The main ingredient of GH-3 is Procaine, called “Novocaine” in the U.S.A. Procaine has been the local anesthetic of choice worldwide, almost-since its discovery in 1905 by Albert Einhorn (This widespread common usage led indirectly to the discovery of its therapeutic uses.). Procaine is made artificially by combining two B vitamins — PABA (Para Amino Benzoic Acid) and DEAE (DiEthyl Amino Ethanol).
In GH-3, the Procaine is combined with buffers which transport it to the whole body and preserve it, since the body quickly metabolizes unbuffered Procaine (Repeated double-blind studies have shown that Procaine alone is effective, and GH-3 is much more effective.).
When the buffered Procaine crosses the brain barrier, it acts as an MAO (Mono Amine Oxidaze) Inhibitor. MAO Inhibitors constitute an important class of anti-depressant drug, such as Imipramine. Imipramine and most other MAO drugs are dangerous: they can have adverse side effects, and they are highly toxic when inadvertently combined with certain foods. Unlike other MAO inhibitors, GH-3 is completely safe.
MAO is an enzyme that degrades important neurotransmitters in the brain, such as Serotonin, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine. GH-3 blocks the action of MAO, thus increasing the levels of various vital neurotransmitters in the brain. This primarily accounts for the fact that users are more alert and cheerful. But these vital neurotransmitters do much more than keep you cheerful – they help regulate sleep, sex drive, the nervous system, energy levels, and so on. Many problems (such as loss of sex drive or irregular sleep) can have a variety of contributing causes. If the primary cause is an MAO-blocked neurotransmitter, then GH-3 may clear up the problem. When a problem has a different cause, GH-3 will probably not help it much. That’s why the secondary benefits are varied and unpredictable. Perhaps when brain chemistry is better understood and diagnostic methods improve, then it will be possible to predict with confidence the full range of benefits that will come to each individual user of GH-3. For now, all we can safely predict is that most users of GH-3 will feel better.
The effect of Procaine on the brain does not tell the whole story, however. The Procaine in GH-3 is slowly metabolized into the splinter (B vitamin) products, PABA and DEAE. DEAE is itself a safe MAO Inhibitor, and it participates in the body’s production of Acetylcholine (ACh). ACh (like Dopamine, Serotonin and Noreprinephrine) is a vital neurotransmitter: ACh is what makes muscles contract, when it is released by the muscle nerves. ACh is also important for memory, and for sensory input signals.
Among the symptoms of PABA deficiency are hair loss, greying, wrinkling and hardening of the skin — all symptoms which are often halted or reversed by GH-3.
PABA is included in most multivitamin products, and many people take large supplemental doses of PABA by itself — yet even for vitamin-conscious people, GH-3 often corrects an apparent PABA deficiency. How is this possible? The answer is that many people assimilate PABA very poorly in pill form. They need it, and they take it, but their bodies don’t receive it. As a metabolic splinter product of Procaine, however, the PABA can be delivered at the cellular level.
The PABA deficiency symptoms are among the more visible signs of aging – and that is why the users of GH-3 often begin to look much younger even as they begin to feel much younger. The effects are mutually reinforcing, also: it is cheering to see the skin and hair take on a more youthful, healthy appearance — and an alert and cheerful mind creates a more youthful, healthy appearance.
This is still not quite the whole story. PABA helps the body generate important nutrients such as vitamin K, Folic Acid and Thiamine. These tertiary metabolic products may also contribute to the extra benefits that often occur with GH-3.
This is only a brief outline of what we have discovered so far. There may be much more to discover. Medical and biochemical scientists have only recently begun to understand even how common aspirin works. And like aspirin, GH-3 was studied theoretically only after its practical benefits had been proved. At the present time, many scientists around the world are still studying GH-3 in an effort to understand better the full story of how it achieves its remarkable benefits.
GH-3 TESTIMONIALS
Mr. John K.. November 19, 1991
- –“I find that GH3 has been of great benefit to me, before I started the first three month regime I could not turn my head in either direction without some discomfort nor could I throw a ball or anything. Now since I started taking the GH3 the neck has loosened and I am able to throw with greater ability without any ill effects. I also had a lump on my right wrist below the thumb and I find that it too is slowly getting smaller. I have also been told that I look much younger; personally I find that I do feel much better than I ever have before I started taking the GH3. I give you my permission to use this letter as a testimonial to the effects of GH3.”
George H., Chiropractic Physician, December 4, 1981
- –“I am feeling stronger and better, I haven’t had my blood pressure tried just recently but I know that it is doing better.”
Mr. Roger W. December 28, 1981
- –“I admit to being somewhat skeptical about this product when I first tried it last June, but the results have more than dispelled any doubts. I no longer need to take any high blood pressure medicine, nor do I get any further angina attacks. I have my eye pressure checked a couple of months ago and although I was diagnosed as having glaucoma several years ago, my eye pressure is now in the high normal range. I believe this has had a beneficial impact upon my heart disease because this autumn, for the first time in years, I was able to go into the woods and cut and load firewood without having to take nitroglycerine tablets.”
–“Many thanks for your great product, and should you need any references, please feel free to use my name.”
Mrs. Erna-Marie, January 1982
- –“…it was given to me by a friend and I am very grateful that you have put this product on the market because I sure feel much better.”
Mrs. Betty J.L., January 1982
- –“Please rush my supply! I just find it as marvelous as you claim it to be. This is my third bottle and I intend to use it all my life. Thank you again and again!”
Mrs. Connie M., February 26, 1982
- –“I have started on the GH3 and I am joyous over the sense of well-being and energy I’ve receive from the tiny daily dosage.”
Crystal 0., March 17, 1982
- –“There has been a dramatic change in how I feel; although my tremor has not completely subsided it is hardly noticeable. I am able to eat most any food without distress, and enjoy the appetite I have gained 5 lbs. and am holding it. Apparently “Vs” nerve has not been inducing that nervous stomach since GH3. There is no soreness now when I press around the epigastric region. I am able to feel some tissue and filling out on the buttocks and thighs. I really was “skin and bones”. I have a better sense of well-being and am more relaxed. I never slept — and I’m now finding relief from stress. Believe me — this is not psyche or placebo — I have a very analytical mind and skeptical — but I know GH3 has been a blessing to me.”
Henry and Irma M., May 30, 1982
- –“… I am seventy-seven years old and considered in good health for my age. I have lived with a sluggish prostate for twenty-five years. It is much better. About a week after taking Gerovital I experienced a dramatic improvement. I find I have much more vim and vigor in walking and square dancing. My wife feels this too, and it helps her arthritis. Naturally we want to continue.
J.G. Porter, November 7, 1982
- –“Just a few words to tell you what GH3 has done for me. It stopped the charlie horses in my legs and I sleep for eight hours at night. I have to get up once and sometimes twice for my kidneys to act. That is quite an improvement over four or five times. My hearing has improved and I don’t forget what I am doing near as often. That makes me feel good. The hair on my arms and body has come back brown. That was its color in my youth. It has started to come back on my bald head. I am 80 years of age.”